Biography
Peter Green was the secretary of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, Local 500, in Portland, Oregon. Peter Green was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to June 1918 and from September 1918 to August 1923. Green was active in the lumber workers general strike in the Northwest during March 1917. The Department of Justice conceded that Green was convicted despite the absence of any " proof that he "even said or did anything against our war."
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster, under the printed name GREEN , PETER, reports: Federal . Indicted Chicago , Sept. 28 , 1917. Conspiracy to violate Sections 6 , 19 and 37 and Section 4 of Espionage Act . Convicted , 10 -year sentence . Bail , $ 10,000 . Leavenworth Federal prison. This is the contemporary labor organization’s account. Indictment, bail and imposed sentence are distinguished from physical admission, actual release and complete time served; no missing custody endpoint is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=11
The March1922 official report lists Peter Green in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violating the espionage act. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 10 years at Leavenworth; fined $20,000.. Imposed terms, projected term-expiration dates, parole eligibility and intervals on bond are different measures; none is entered as a complete actual custody total. This attributed government entry is retained alongside the independently established individual chronology. [PDF9]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 9.
